{"id":11710,"date":"2025-02-18T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/?p=11710"},"modified":"2025-02-18T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:02:35","slug":"professor-chiara-faggella-publishes-book-on-italian-fashion-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/2025\/02\/18\/professor-chiara-faggella-publishes-book-on-italian-fashion-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Chiara Faggella Publishes Book on Italian Fashion History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/faggella-book-1024x717.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/faggella-book-1024x717.png 1024w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/faggella-book-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/faggella-book-768x538.png 768w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/faggella-book-1536x1075.png 1536w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/faggella-book.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Chiara Faggella, who teaches <a href=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/blog\/course\/lit-316-italian-fashion-and-food-stories\">Italian Fashion and Food Stories<\/a> and the design course <a href=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/blog\/course\/des300-2-bellissima-unraveling-the-threads-of-italian-fashion-spring\">Bellissima! Unraveling the Threads of Italian Fashion<\/a> has published a book on Italian fashion history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Faggella explains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Becoming couture<\/em>\u00a0is the first book to examine the history of the Italian fashion industry during the global transition brought about by the Second World War. It draws on a wide range of primary sources, some of them newly unearthed, to demonstrate that the Italian fashion industry in the Republican era continued to rely on business practices and professionals established during Fascism. Analyzing changes in promotional discourses and press coverage, the book traces the shift that occurred when manufacturers were encouraged to expand their exports of accessories to include sportswear, knitwear, and <em>moda boutique<\/em>. <strong>This ultimately led to the legitimization of Italian dressmaking as creatively independent of French influences and therefore worthy of the label &#8216;couture&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Chiara Faggella, who teaches Italian Fashion and Food Stories and the design course Bellissima! Unraveling the Threads of Italian Fashion has published a book on Italian fashion history. As Faggella explains: Becoming couture\u00a0is the first book to examine the history of the Italian fashion industry during the global transition brought about by the Second&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":11711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11713,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710\/revisions\/11713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}